How I Made It: Richard Green, director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate

Sun, 06/26/2011 - 00:00 EDT - LA Times

The gig: Richard Green, 52, is the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, a research and academic program based at the university's Marshall School of Business and the school of policy, planning and development. Green, who is also a professor, is widely quoted on housing issues in the national media, and his book "A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy," with Stephen Malpezzi, is used at universities throughout the country.

By MJagadesh Kumar Universities offer formal and organised higher education in a variety of subjects. The primary objective of higher education is to enable the students to (i) acquire critical thinking, (ii) ability to ask questions, (iii) synthesise information and (iv) use the acquired knowledge to find solutions to unfamiliar complex situations. In the recent past, the yearly announcement of world university rankings has caught the public imagination and questions are being asked about why Indian universities do not find their place in the top rankings.

NEW DELHI: Keeping in mind the challenges posed by the "dramatic" transformation of higher education, Delhi Technological University has restructured its academic programmes and curriculum to meet global demands, its Vice Chancellor Pradeep Kumar said today. Welcoming the 75th batch of students at the prestigious engineering institution, Kumar said, "Wherever there are opportunities there are challenges.

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University of Oxford comes in fourth place, beating University of Cambridge in eleventh, while University of London (12), London School of Economics (31) and Imperial College (50) also make the list.
The University of Manchester is among the best fifty universities in the world for producing millionaire alumni, ranking in thirty-seventh position.
Overall the United States dominates the list, with thirty-one of the top fifty universities for producing millionaire alumni being based in the country.

MUMBAI: Sixteen Indian places of learning are among the top 200 universities in The Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies rankings. The Indian Institute of Science broke into the top 20 for the first time and was listed at No. 16. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, entered the top 30, with the premier engineering school ranked at 29. Last year, IISc and IITBombay were at 25 and 37, respectively. Other Indian institutes that have gained ground in the rankings include IIT-Madras (to 36 from 44), IITDelhi (to 37 from 56) and IIT-Guwahati (to 83 from 98).